Den populære Call of Duty-serie har altid haft stor fokus på spillets onlinedel, men seriens kampagner har også været utroligt populære gennem tiden. Dog fandt vi for nyligt ud af, at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 bliver det første spil i serien, der har valgt at skrotte spillets kampagne, og nu fortæller Treyarch hvorfor.
Oprindeligt skulle spillet indeholde en kampagne, men blev under udviklingen skrottet. Under et interview bliver Treyarch co-studio head Dan Bunting spurgt, om hvorfor de har valgt at skrotte kampagnen, og fortæller, at selvom de oprindeligt havde planer om en kampagne, så var det aldrig meningen at den skulle blive udført på traditionel vis:
Going back to the very beginning of Black Ops 4 development, we never had set out to make a traditional campaign. We always started from the place of, we're going to make something different with this game that was going to be inspired by how our community was interacting with Black Ops 3 and the games over the years. We see more and more players spending more time with multiplayer and zombies, not just in the game, but out of the game, streaming and talking about it in forums. It's generated a really huge crowd response. The decision was, we wanted to make a different style of game this time.
Throughout the course of development we tried a lot of ideas, a lot of things that challenged convention, that might be a different kind of twist on how we might think of a Call of Duty game in the past, or a Black Ops game in the past. As we did that, some things make it, some things don't.
The game we're representing today really represents the best of the ideas that have run through that gauntlet of game development, which is pretty typical for how we do things.
Bunting understreger, at der bliver brugt mere og mere tid på spillets onlinedel end de traditionelle kampagner, og derfor ønsker udvikleren at ligge det fulde fokus på onlinedelen. Han forstår dog godt, at folk der normalt nyder seriens kampagner er nedtrykte over nyheden, og fortsætter:
"I think change is always going to be hard for people. I would say to our fans, Treyarch has never let you down over the years. This is a studio you know is always going to deliver the best of the experiences you know and love, especially with the Black Ops series. We are delivering so much more of what players spend most of their time doing in our games in the series."
Udover at have fjernet spillets kampagne vil Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 desuden have en Battle Royale-del i spillet, og med et personligt twist ifølge udvikleren.
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